Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-23

liant has been fifty per cent. If it
true that the transmitta5le property {
: the world accumulated during the las
twenty-five years equals all the gains fro1
the birth of Christ to the beginning of til
: present century, then much of it has bes
made by this favored nation, which for six
teen hundred years had no existence, and we
not an appreciable factor in the divisibl
property of the earth at the close of tn
Christian calculation. These unparallelel
results can be protected and continued onl,
by the spirit represented by your sacrifice
and inspiring your victories-the spirit O
patriotism. This is a republic, and neithe
mammon nor anarchy shall be king
The American asks only for
fair field and an equal chance
himself and his children to the full enjoy
ment of all he honestly earns. But he vii
seek and find the means for graduating con
ditions which hopelessly handicap him from
the start. In this contest he does not wan
the assistance of the red flag, and he regards
with equal hostility those who march undel
| that banner and those who furnish argument
| and excuse for its existence. The men who
| in 1880 "cornered' our wheat product and sc
CRITICALLY raised the price all over the world
that governments and peoples pushed rail
| roads through Indian plains to the Himalayas
across Russian steppes to the Arctic zone
| and over Australian deserts to fertile valleys
| in search of food, created for us competitions
which lost us the foreign markets and par
| TALLY paralyzed our agricultural prosperity.
They were public enemies. In good times
and easy credit small margin represents
millions of capital and reckless spectators
| control first one and then another of the nee
essaries of life, raising the cost of living be
You'd the profits of production throwing
| thousands of industrious men out of employ
| ment and thwarting and 1rining 1egitimat1
| trades and business capital. They exasper-
/ Ia vii h and
| dangers which threaten the whole property
| of the country, the peace of COM
munities and the lives of millions
of people. If public sentiment cannot
| reach these evils, our constitutions are elias
| tic enough, our legislatures wise enough, and
| our courts strong enough to eradicate them
| by lawful means. Traffic in the food of the
| people must be free. The corporation is the
creature of the State, its powers limited by
| the conditions of its existence, its methods
| subject to public supervisor, and its life dc :
pendent upon its creator. 1t is the only
m edium through which many of the great
| enterprises of our civilization can be carried
| on. But the sun of publicity can send no
ray into the labyrinths of those gigantic
| combinations which are created neither by
| law nor custom nor necessity, and whose
| mysterious movements are at once the peril
and the puzzle of the investor and the dc
| structive traps for enterprise and ambition.
Macaulay wrote 80 years ago that our in
situations were not strong enough to stand
| the strain of crowded populations and social
distress, and that our public lands furnished
the only escape from anarchy. With the
| opening of the next century, thirteen years
hence they will all be occupied, and at the
| first industrial disturbance which throws
| large masses of men out of employment we
| must meet the prediction of the famous his
| torian. It Macaulay had witnessed the sub
| lime response of the people to President
| Lincoln's call for troops to suppress rebel
| lion and save the Union, it would have clear
ed his vision and modified his judgment.
| Nevertheless the exhaustion of the
public domain and the disappear
ance forever of the unbought home
| stead present part of Macaulay's
problem. The ranks of anarchy and riot
| number no Americans. The leaders boldly
proclaim that they can come here, not to en-
| Joy the blessings of our liberty and to sus-
| tain our institutions, but to destroy our gov
/ eminent and dethrone our laws, to cut our
/ Threats and divide our property. Dissatis-
| fed labor furnishes the opportunity to preach
| their doctrines and mobs to try their tactics.
| Their recruiting officers are active in every
/ city in Europe, and for once despotic gov
ernments give them accord and assistance in
| securing and shipping to America the most
dangerous elements of their populations.
| The emigrants arriving this year will out
| number the people of several
States and 1T OF +b- every city city Sc in the
| mighty power should instantly depopulate
Maine or Connecticut or Nebra,ka, or Buffa-
| 10, Cleveland. Detroit and New Haven COM
bined, with their culture, refinement and
varied professional, mechanical and indus
trial excellence and enlightened government,
and suddenly substitute these people, we
could quickly estimate the character and
value of this contribution to our institutions
and wealth. The emigrants Of the pest have
been of incalcu1able benefit to a country
which needed settlers for its lands and skill
led and unskilled labor for its towns, and
among them have been men who have
filed and adorned the highest position
of power and trust The officers of the gov
eminent report that there is falling off of
over seventy per cent. of farmers, mechanics
and trained workers, and their places are oc-
cupied by elements which must drift into
and demoralize labor centers already over
stocked and congested, or fill the highways
and poorhouses. We do not wish to prohibit
emigration, but our laws should be rigidly
revised so that we may at least have some
voice in the selection of our guests. We
cannot afford to become the dumping
ground of the world for its vicious
or ignorant or worthless or diseased.
We Will welcome, as always, all patriots
fleeing from oppression, all who will contrib
ute to the strength of our government and
the development of our resources, and we
will freely grant to all who become citizens
equal rights and privileges under the laws
and in making them with the soldiers who
saved the republic, but no more. There is
room in this country for only one flag, and
cold Glory" must head the procession or it
cannot march.
The speaker made an appeal for a navy
worthy the United States In any moment
some danger may menace the nation from
within or without. What would have saved
Chicago from fire and ruin had not the An
archists' mob been crushed. A less peace
loving or self-poised man than Samuel ].
Tilden would have stirred political passions,
infamed to the fighting point, to revolt.
Again, the American Caesar is an airy
phantasm of diseased Imagination. Gem
orally speaking the local authorities answer
for the suppression of riots. The United
States regular army and the National Guard
of the States were complimented The
speaker had unlimited faith in the absorb
emit proportion of American communities and
the solvent process of American liberty.
Let US take care of the Mosts,
the Spies, and the Schwabs,
and the press, the platform, the school and
the church, and the English language will
make honest citizens of their followers and
descendants.
Every man who leads a temperate and in
dustrious life and organizes himself into an
anti-poverty society of one has secured his
| independence and individual prosperity and
becomes champion of order and bulwark
of law.
The orator then spoke very eloquently of
the old soldiers and their fast depicting
ranks. From intermediate discussions we
| rise to the contemplation of two grand facts,
standing like monuments at the beginning
| and close of its career, that it owed its exist
ence to the mastery organizing abilities of
Mcclellan and ended the war under the
superb generalship of Grant. AS we recall
the memory of the dead the spirits of all the
warrior heroes of the past come trooping
before us. There are Alexander and
cesar, Gustavus and the great Fred
| erick, Napoleon and his marshals, Yelling
ton and his generals, Washington and his
compatriots, and they have enrolled in their
| company and encircled with their praise
Hancock and Hooker, Sumner and Sedgwick,
Burnside and Reynolds, Wadsworth, Custer
and Fitzpatrick.
With other eloquent words the speaker
closed as follows When Lincoln and Grant
| and Sherman, firmly holding behind them
the vengeful passions of the civil war, put